Corn-planter



' (No Model.)

W. L. HUT-SON.

GORNPLANTER.

Patented Mar. 28,1882.

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WILLIAM L. HUTSON, OF ST. LAWRENCE, NORTH CAROLINA.

CORN-PLANTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 255,630, dated March28, 1882.

Application filed December 7, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM L. .HUTSON, acitizen of the United States of America, residing at St. Lawrence, inthe county of Ghatham and State of North Carolina, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements -in Corn-Planters; and I do hereby declarethe following to be afnll, clear, and'exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to corn-planters and seed-dropping machines; andit consists in certain improvements in the construction of the same, ashereinafter shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation ofthe invention applied to an ordinary plow. .Fig. 2 is a side elevation,partly in section. Fig. 3 is a partial rear view, showing the hopper insection. Fig. 4 is a detached view of certain details of the elevatorand its guides.

A designates the beam of a plow, having a standard, B, with the share orshovel G attached in the ordinary manner. The hopper l) is usually fixedin position above the plowbcanI and between the handles, the front parthaving downward extensions (1. on both sides of the beam to sustain thesliding elevators and to form beariugsfor the axle of the driving-whee],as shown in the drawings.

The hopper is divided into two compartments by the partition I), eachcompartment having an elevator, c, therein, which slides in guides d,fixed within the hopper to the front part thereof and to the extensionsa. Each of said elevators passes through aslot or corresponding aperturein the bottom of the hopper and is coupled at its lower extremity by arod, 0, with a crank,f, on the shaft or axle ofthe driving-wheel E. Thetwo cranks fare fixed to the axle of the wheel to extend in oppositedirections, so that when one is turned upward the other is turneddownward, and the elevators are alternately raised and lowered as thewheel revolves.

An aperture, g, is made through each elevator at a proper point, so thatwhen the elevator in operation reaches its lowest point the saidaperture is at the bottom of the hopper and when the elevator reachesits highest point the aperture g is opposite to and adjoining anotheraperture, h, in the front part of the hopper. Thus when an elevator hasmade its downward stroke the aperture 9! is at the bottom of the hopperand seeds falling into the aperture are raised by the elevator to theaperture h, through which they fall into acouductor, t, in front ofthehopper.

The conductori leads to a spout, m, which passes down on one side ofbeam and along the standard,so as to deposit the seed just back of theplowshare, where it is immediately covered by the soil falling back inthe furrow.

The planter is well adapted t'orsowing corn, pease, beans, and otherseeds, and may be applied to anyform of plow. The hopper having tworeceptacles, as shown,two difierent kinds of seed may be sown at thesame time, or one compartment may be used for seed and the other forguano or other fertilizer.

In planting rows of corn, &c., the distance between seed-deposits isregulated by the size of the driving-wheel used. The constructiondescribed enables a single person to accomplish a large amount of workwith the employment of a single horse. When sowing corn and other seedor guano at the same time, the cranksf may be so adjusted as to dropguano or the other seed midway-between the deposits of corn.

I am aware that nearly vertical moving seedslides on wheels with cranksare not new. Therefore I do not wish to be understood as claiming thembroadly.

I claim In that class of seed-planters having nearly verticalreciprocating seed-slides moving in grooved ways, the hopper havinginclined apertures h, slides or elevators 0, having inclined apertures9, working in separate divisions of the hopper, in combination with thedouble-cranked axle, on which the spiked operating-wheel is secured torevolve, thus imparting motion to the seed-slides, substantially asshown and described.

In testimony wlIereotI affix my signatare in presence of two witnesses.

\VILLIA M L. HUTSON.

Witnesses:

JAMES P. SMITH, GEO. KIRKMAN.

